By Leslie Overman on August 25, 2010
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George Norman Bisanar, GS 27, of Concord, N.C., on June 28, at the age of 102. Mr. Bisanar moved to Concord in 1940 to oversee the Coca-Cola Bottling Company’s local operation and held the position [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, Obituaries, Sept/Oct 2010
By Leslie Overman on August 25, 2010
Arthur Hansen, who led Georgia Tech from 1969 to 1971 as the Institute’s seventh president, died July 5 in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 85 years old.
Dr. Hansen arrived at Tech in 1966 as the dean of engineering. He assumed the president’s office, vacated by Edwin Harrison, on Aug. 1, 1969. The choice of Dr. [...]
Posted in Obituaries, Sept/Oct 2010
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
Jeanne Rolfe Ferst, wife of the late Robert H. Ferst, ME 38, died May 27 at her home in Atlanta. She was 91.
Though she attended the University of Chicago, Mrs. Ferst became a proud supporter of Georgia Tech after marrying into one of the Institute’s most dedicated alumni families in 1940.
During Tech’s Capital Campaign, Mrs. [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, July/August 2010, Obituaries
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
Former Georgia Tech football star and NFL player Nick Rogers, Mgt 03, died May 3 in a single-vehicle accident in College Park, Ga., when his car hit a utility pole. He was 30 years old.
Mr. Rogers, a two-year starter at defensive end at Tech, earned second-team All-ACC honors in the 2000 and 2001 seasons. In [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, July/August 2010, Obituaries
By Leslie Overman on June 28, 2010
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William D. Evans Jr., IM 38, of Winston-Salem, N.C., on May 10. He worked for many years with Crawford & Company in Raleigh and later was vice president of safety for Carolina Casualty Insurance Co. in Jacksonville, [...]
Posted in Burdell & Friends, July/August 2010, Obituaries
By GTalumni on May 3, 2010
Obituaries from the print edition.
Posted in May/June 2010, Obituaries
By Leslie Overman on May 3, 2010
Henry C. Bourne Jr., who was hired by Tech President Joseph Pettit to recruit top-notch faculty in the 1980s and later led the Institute for more than a year after the president’s death, died March 25. He lived in Winston-Salem, N.C., and was 88 years old.
Dr. Bourne came to Tech in 1981 to serve as [...]
Posted in May/June 2010, Obituaries
By Van Jensen on May 3, 2010
After earning a master’s degree in sociology from Georgia State University at age 70, Annemarie Eaton began writing books on aging. Her advice must be golden, as Mrs. Eaton, a former student at Georgia Tech, died April 3 at age 102.
Mrs. Eaton’s central belief was to live a full life, and hers certainly qualified. She [...]
Posted in May/June 2010, Obituaries
By Leslie Overman on May 3, 2010
The next time you sit down to a platter of hash browns scattered, smothered and covered, be sure to raise your cup of coffee to toast Clifford Nahser.
Mr. Nahser, BS 51, Arch 52, who contributed to the look of the Waffle House restaurants so popular to truck drivers and late-night revelers in the South, died [...]
Posted in May/June 2010, Obituaries
By GTalumni on May 3, 2010
Thomas Pigford, ChE 43, a nuclear engineer who pushed for stronger safety standards for nuclear reactors, died Feb. 28 at his home in Oakland, Calif. He was 87 years old.
Dr. Pigford, professor emeritus and founding chair of the department of nuclear engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, served on the 12-member presidential commission that [...]
Posted in May/June 2010, Obituaries
The September/October 2010 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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